Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brecker banned jitterbugging, and the number of hostesses steadily dwindled, finally (in 1950) disappeared. Tuxedoed bouncers (politely known as "housemen") prowled through the crowd to keep order. Last week's grand opening of the new Roseland (at 52nd Street, west of Broadway) suggested that henceforth it might be tougher to keep order...
...those who saw only the scores of the Arena Christmas hockey tournament it may have seemed a paradox that the varsity, in finishing first and winning the John Babine Trophy, found last-place West Point tougher to beat than runner-up Boston College...
...prepared to clear the Suez Canal (if not its clouded title), the U.N.'s next and much tougher task is to establish its Emergency Force along the Egyptian-Israeli 1949 armistice line, some 120 miles to the east. To judge by the beginnings, this may take a long time. In Jerusalem Premier David Ben-Gurion announced that "under no circumstances" would Israel agree to return the captured Gaza Strip of Palestine territory to Egypt. And in the Sinai desert, advancing Yugoslav elements of the UNEF found that the retreating Israelis had skillfully scorched the earth...
Coach Krinsky is reportedly searching for tougher opponents for a squad grown tired of "milk and butter opposition." FG F TP Wolle 5 0 10 Singal 1 2 4 Carlson 4 0 8 J. Smith 5 2 12 Rawden 4 1 9 Repetto 5 3 13 Bagdade 1 0 2 Ferruci 0 0 0 Scheer 3 3 9 L. Smith 0 2 2 Watkins 1 0 2 Foker...
...newly appointed vice president for television programming. "You mean condolences," replied Emanuel ("Manie") Sacks, a short, dark man of 52 with a talent for finding talent. Sacks was only half kidding. With the possible exception of watching the screen all day long, no task in TV is tougher than figuring out how to keep it filled. One of the big challenges facing Sacks and his fellow programmers on the other networks : the current season has turned into a big Unspectacular, and so far there is little in the way of new shows or fresh ideas to replace the many failures...